CITIZENS FROM SOUTHERN MAINE SERVE CHARGES OF IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH & CHENEY TO REPRESENTATIVE TOM ALLEN.
At the end of this video, you’ll see the citizens actually hand deliver their petitions to the Rep’s office and then subsequently be arrested!
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007 approximately 250 Maine people came to Portland, Maine and delivered charges of impeachment and their personal impeachment messages to the office of Maine’s First District Congressman, Tom Allen. For one and a half hours people were telling Rep. Allen’s staff their opinions about the need for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The staff in Allen’s office knew that a group was headed in their direction that day, but they became very surprised when such a large group tied up their office, their time and their ears for hours on this crucial issue.
Eight of the impeachment protesters in Rep. Allen’s office stated that they were unwilling to leave the office until Rep. Allen delivered a message that he will support impeachment in Congress. When the office was closed at 5:30 PM, those people refused to leave, and they were arrested and removed from the premises by the Portland police. These eight people currently face charges for trespassing.
All three of Portland’s major TV stations covered the event in their evening and late-night news and it was carried on The Maine Public Broadcasting Network television and radio. The event was video’d end to end and the video is being delivered to Rep. Allen who was not present at the time.
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“Small price to pay” may be right, but I am moved watching my courageous and honorable fellow citizens in Maine being willing to put their money where their mouths have been and be arrested in an act of civil disobedience in insisting that their Congressman honor his oath of office and make a strong stand against domestic enemies to our Constitution: George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney.